Dirty Apes Discover Science

January 3rd, 2012 | By funky49

Download Dirty Apes Discover Science!

 

[Bandcamp]
http://funky49.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-apes-discover-science

[Zip file]
http://funky49.com/tracks/albums/DADS/funky49_DirtyApesDiscoverScience.zip

4 JANUARY 2012 – Tampa, FL, USA

BEATS, BASS AND BEAKERS! Rapbassador, the album funky49 created to promote Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry now has a sequel: Dirty Apes Discover Science. This release is aimed at the nerds, geeks, scientists and engineers who need some hip-hop in their life. It is also for rap fans who have had their fill of songs about cars and jewelery.

Dirty Apes Discover Science is a genre-spanning work with influences from dubstep, electro-house, R&B to old school hip-hop. In the lead track “Science Like Us”, the scientific method (observation, hypothesis, prediction, experimentation, conclusion) is amazingly distilled into 8 bars of rap. “Gene Swap” humorously delves into the under-represented biological side of sex. There is praise for the humble particle in “My Electron” as well as jabs at the willful ignorance by the Insane Clown Posse. Kudos are given to everyone’s favorite internet company with “Google That”. Personal to funky49, there is mad love for the scientist/inventor in “Ben Franklin is my BFF”. The track “Particle Business” highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery that existed between CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. A music video for “Particle Business” was shot at various locations at Fermilab and was created by Dan Lamoureux of Nerdcore for Life acclaim.

Dirty Apes Discover Science cover art

 

Sample lyrics:

My Electron

“He’s a particle, he’s a wave, beta decay his birthday

Positron handshakes annihilates and that creates gamma rays”

Gene Swap

“Wanna do it like Mendel? In the garden like so well?

Let’s stop this gamin’ you’re cravin’ to see my stamen”

Ben Franklin is my BFF

“Didn’t go to college but he started one / Didn’t have a smile til he farted one”

funky49 is Steven Rush, a rapper and science enthusiast living in Tampa, FL. He has presented at TEDx, BarCamp Tampa, Fermilab and the National Academy of Sciences. He was named a “Nerdcore Hip-Hop All Star” by Wired magazine and performs at geek-friendly concerts such as Nerdapalooza. He is looking forward to his performance at the 2012 USA Science and Engineering Festival. Steven Rush has also been selected by NASA to participate in Tweetups at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Space Camp in Alabama. His album Starblazer is available on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby.

Particle Business music video:

http://youtu.be/oaG6umMkbxg

Beastie Boys / Family Ties mashup

September 4th, 2011 | By funky49

People love my Beastie Boys remix with the Trading Spaces theme song. Because of a tweet by @DJTightyWhitey I was inspired to make a song with the Family Ties theme. It’s short. It just uses verses from Adrock. It’s awesome.

It’s also dedicated to @DJTightyWhitey and @krebstar and everyone else having a birthday (MegaRan, Rappy, etc). Adults sure like to crank down in January. Must be the cold weather in most of the northern hemisphere, right?

http://funky49.com/tracks/bbremixes/funky49vsBeastieBoys_CheckItOut.mp3

Owl City – Fireflies (funky49 remix)

April 24th, 2010 | By 49

If you liked that Owl City – Fireflies song, you’ll probably hate my remix.

http://funky49.com/tracks/remixes/funky49_FirefliesRemix.mp3

Give it a listen and share it with others if you dig it. The music video is awesome.

Particle Business

April 7th, 2010 | By 49

Particle Business: mp3 & music video

Notes: This is the song I did for Fermilab.

Lyrics:

[chorus]
Rock stars of physics, particle business
smash matter, anti-matter and witness
quarks, bottom to top
they don’t stop
“Where the Higgs at?”
Yo that’s their mark!
Go! Go! Go!

[verse 1]
Tevatron, OG atom smasher
Say Hello to CERN’s party crasher
The new ‘Lord of the Rings’ LHC hear me
This be competitive collaboration baby
Strippin’ electrons, makin ions
Of hydrogen, now pull that proton
Give it that speed we need to make
Real Science get achieved, I believe
Shock protons, Greatly accelerated
Two tera electron volts they rated
Fated to smash and get mated
Creatin’ smaller bits, energy still equated
We love collisions, Take snap shots
Till we set the right shot, learn a lot
Yo, a mad grip of events do occur
Blast fast, Data stream is a blur
Normal events–They get ignored
Higgs events–They get adored!

(Chorus)

[verse 2]
High over frontier. Wilson Hall tall
With aesthetics, it’s a science cathedral
For the people that see with math
Collider detector and massive graphs
DZero or CDF, who’s the best?
If pressed I guess who’s closest
To quench the measurement thirst
And who got their results in first
Collision detectors, Fermion collectors
This ain’t the 60s with pocket protectors
These peeps cool like super-conducted
Magnets, you know four nine ain’t frontin’

(Chorus)

To me, triple beams don’t mean
Pushin’ mad coke, Its scientists in lab coats
So you ready for insight twilight or limelight?
Research in basic science, I’ll fight
Who’s side you with? R&D dollars?
Or pork spending for anyone who hollas?
Brain drain. No technology policy
Ballot box for better decisions in D.C.
Rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis Keys
Science cutter clowns get smacked down please
I’m trippin’ at students slippin’ in
Test scores, Against the world they’re dippin’
Let’s be liftin’, Positive like positrons
Before we ask where we gone wrong
Down with MTV, forget what you heard
Get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard

“Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be learned” – Carl Sagan

Particle Business music video – Fermilab Rap

April 7th, 2010 | By 49

It’s here to save the world and promote science!

Particle Business!

Free mp3 for Particle Busines

Lyrics for which Symmetry Magazine has a breakdown of:

[chorus]
Rock stars of physics, particle business
smash matter, anti-matter and witness
quarks, bottom to top
they don’t stop
“Where the Higgs at?”
Yo that’s their mark!
Go! Go! Go!

[verse 1]
Tevatron, OG atom smasher
Say Hello to CERN’s party crasher
The new ‘Lord of the Rings’ LHC hear me
This be competitive collaboration baby
Strippin’ electrons, makin ions
Of hydrogen, now pull that proton
Give it that speed we need to make
Real Science get achieved, I believe
Shock protons, Greatly accelerated
Two tera electron volts they rated
Fated to smash and get mated
Creatin’ smaller bits, energy still equated
We love collisions, Take snap shots
Till we set the right shot, learn a lot
Yo, a mad grip of events do occur
Blast fast, Data stream is a blur
Normal events–They get ignored
Higgs events–They get adored!

(Chorus)

[verse 2]
High over frontier. Wilson Hall tall
With aesthetics, it’s a science cathedral
For the people that see with math
Collider detector and massive graphs
DZero or CDF, who’s the best?
If pressed I guess who’s closest
To quench the measurement thirst
And who got their results in first
Collision detectors, Fermion collectors
This ain’t the 60s with pocket protectors
These peeps cool like super-conducted
Magnets, you know four nine ain’t frontin’

(Chorus)

To me, triple beams don’t mean
Pushin’ mad coke, Its scientists in lab coats
So you ready for insight twilight or limelight?
Research in basic science, I’ll fight
Who’s side you with? R&D dollars?
Or pork spending for anyone who hollas?
Brain drain. No technology policy
Ballot box for better decisions in D.C.
Rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis Keys
Science cutter clowns get smacked down please
I’m trippin’ at students slippin’ in
Test scores, Against the world they’re dippin’
Let’s be liftin’, Positive like positrons
Before we ask where we gone wrong
Down with MTV, forget what you heard
Get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard

“Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be learned” – Carl Sagan

Filmed on location in and around the tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, “Particle Business” is rapper Funky49′s hip-hop tribute to the “O.G. Atom Smasher.” The video was directed and edited by Dan Lamoureux, the filmmaker behind the Nerdcore hip-hop documentary, “Nerdcore For Life.”

Particle Business Credits:
Music – funky49 & redvoid
Shot and edited by: Dan Lamoureux
Lyrics – funky49
Guitar – c plus student
Additional vocals – Dr. Ben Kilminster
Mixed and mastered – The HT @ Studio 6, Port Orange, FL
Costume design – Christy Redd

Still from the Particle Business music video